July 5 in Tigers and mlb history history:
1913: With manager John McGraw in the grandstand, the Giants win their 11th straight, beating Brooklyn, 3 - 2.
Christy Mathewson is the winner over Pat Ragan, scattering 12 hits but walking none. His walkless streak is at 47 innings.
1914: Big Ed Walsh makes his first start since straining his right arm in spring training in 1913. He lasts seven innings in a White Sox win over Cleveland, 6 - 3.
1914: Hall of Famer and Tigers' Harry Heilmann hits his first home run in a loss to the St. Louis Browns.
1915: At the Polo Grounds, Phils ace Grover Cleveland Alexander fires a one-hitter to win, 2 - 0. The only baserunner for the Giants is Fred Merkle, who doubles off Pete in the second inning.
1917: In the first of two games in New York, Home Run Baker hits a 13th-inning inside-the-park homer off Walter Johnson to give the Yankees a 5 - 4 win. It is Baker's 5th home run off Walter.
1921: The Red Sox establish an American League record losing four consecutive doubleheaders with no other contests between the eight losses. The dubious streak began on June 29th.
1922: The Cards' Rogers Hornsby hits his 20th home run, tying Ken Williams of the American League for the major league home run leadership; the Cards whip the Reds, 12 - 4.
1923: The Detroit Tigers purchased Goldie Rapp from the Philadelphia Phillies.
1930: Marking the first time two Negro League teams play at Yankee Stadium, 20,000 watch the New York Lincoln Giants and the Baltimore Black Sox split a pair. Baltimore's Rap Dixon has three home runs and the Giants' Chino Smith has two homers and a triple.
1934: Lou Gehrig hits an inside-the-park grand slam, as the Yankees beat the Senators, 8 - 3. It is his 4th of the season and 17th overall, passing Babe Ruth's career total. Gehrig will eventually set a career record of 23 grand slams. Gehrig now has 321 career home runs to Ruth's 698.
1940: The Brooklyn Dodgers beat Boston, 6 - 2, in 20 innings lasting 5 hours and 19 minutes. The two teams' epic marathon ties record-setters of 1920 and 1939.
1947: Striking out as a pinch hitter in an Indian 6 - 5 loss to the White Sox, 22-year old Larry Doby becomes the first black to appear in the American League. The former Newark Eagles standout will play in the major leagues for 13 years, amassing 1,515 hits, just three less than Jackie Robinson. Tomorrow, he will go 1 for 5 in his first full game at 1B.
1948: Despite a hitless day by Ted Williams, the Red Sox sweep the Yankees, winning 6 - 5 and 8 - 7. Denny Galehouse wins the opener, then saves the win in game 2. But his 9th inning sacrifice bunt results in his tripping over 1B and he will be out of action for three weeks.
1951: At Ebbets Field, Gil Hodges hits his 27th homer of the year to lead the Dodgers to a 8 - 4 win over the Giants. Andy Pafko also homers, off Larry Jansen. Don Newcombe notches his 12th win, giving up seven hits. After sweeping the Giants in the 3-game series, Dodger manager Chuck Dressen declares, "We knocked 'em out. They won't bother us anymore." The Dodgers now lead the Giants by 7 1/2 games but will be surpassed by season's end.
1952: The Tigers fire their manager of four years, Red Rolfe, replacing him with the popular pitcher Freddie Hutchinson a Tigers pitcher for 10 years. Detroit loses over 100 games for the first time in franchises history.
Hutchinson, who manages through the Tigers 1954 season, has new blood on the team with players Harvey Kuenn and Al Kaline, and pitchers Billy Hoeft, and Paul Foytack.
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1953: Blanking the Pirates at Forbes Field, 2 - 0, Robin Roberts hurls his 28th consecutive complete game. The Phillies right-hander has finished every game he started since beating the Cardinals on August 28, 1952.
1954: RF Stan Musial outpolls all other National League players in the All-Star balloting.
1954: Harvey Kuenn hits a walk-off home run in the 11th inning to give the #Tigers a 1-0 win over the indians.
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1961: At Yankee Stadium, Roger Maris cracks a 7th-inning solo home run against the Indians, and also is credited - erroneously, as it turns out - with a 3rd inning RBI on a single. The two RBIs are officially recorded, though just one appears in the game's box score, and the error will not be noted until 1995. With the correction, Maris and Jim Gentile become co-leaders in RBIs for the season.
1962: Tigers Rocky Colavito hits three home runs and 5 rbi in a loss to the indians.
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1965: Minnesota takes an American League lead it will not give up, as Dave Boswell and Jim Perry pitch the Twins to a 6 - 2 and 2 - 0 sweep of the Red Sox. The Sox will win just one of 18 games with the Twins this year.
1968: Bill Freehan hits two 3-run home runs in an 8-5 win over the A's at Tiger Stadium.
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1969: OF Mickey Stanley plays his 220th straight errorless game and C Bill Freehan picks Paul Blair off third base unassisted. Blair, on third with a triple, strolls too slowly back to the bag after the bat flies out of the hands of Frank Robinson.
1972: In a game against the Royals in Kansas City, Mickey Lolich strikes out the 2,000th batter of his career. In the fifth inning, Lolich fans Cookie Rojas to become the first Tiger hurler to reach the 2,000-K mark. He will end up with 2,679 strikeouts in his career with Detroit, and holding the record for 45 years until 2017, the most by a left-hander in American League history.
1983: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later to the St. Louis Cardinals for Doug Bair. The Detroit Tigers sent Dave Rucker (July 5, 1983) to the St. Louis Cardinals to complete the trade.
1983: Former Tigers including Gehringer, Greenberg, Newhouser, Bunning, Kell, Kaline, Kuenn, & Freehan appear at an Old Timers reunion at the 50th All-Star Game in Chicago.
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1984: Down 4 - 1 with two outs in the 9th, the visiting Tigers score six runs to beat the Rangers 7 - 4. Lou Whitaker's bases-loaded single scores two, Alan Trammell's single scores another, and Kirk Gibson seals it with a three-run shot down the right field line. Charlie Hough is the loser, while reliever Aurelio Lopez's record goes up to 7-0.
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1989: The Tigers sign amateur free agent pitcher Jose Lima.
1993: Oakland OF Rickey Henderson leads off both games of the A's doubleheader against the Indians with home runs. It is the first time this has happened since 1913, when Harry Hooper performed the feat for the Boston Red Sox.
1996: The Michigan Court of Appeals rules against the Tiger Stadium Fan Club, clearing a hurdle for the Tigers to get a new stadium.
1998: Juan Gonzalez becomes the second player in major league history to go over the 100 RBI mark before the All-Star Game. His major league-leading total 101 RBIs is second only to Tigers' slugger Hank Greenberg who had 103 in 1935 and finished the season with 170.
2002: On this date the great Ted Williams, outfielder, manager; All-Star, and Hall of Famer passes away. Baseball legend Ted Williams, considered by many the greatest hitter in the history of the game, dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 83. The first-ballot Hall of Famer, who was a lifetime .344 hitter, won the Most Valuable Player Award and the Triple Crown twice, led the American League in batting six times, and hit .406 in 1941 during his 19-year career with the Boston Red Sox. All this while missing 5 years due to serving in the Armed Forces in WWII and the Korean War.
2002: The Detroit Tigers signed Mark Johnson as a free agent.
2002: As part of a 3-team trade: The Oakland Athletics sent a player to be named later, Franklyn German and Carlos Pena to the Detroit Tigers.
The New York Yankees sent Jason Arnold (minors), John-Ford Griffin and Ted Lilly to the Oakland Athletics.
The Detroit Tigers sent Jeff Weaver to the New York Yankees. The Detroit Tigers sent cash to the Oakland Athletics.
The Oakland Athletics sent Jeremy Bonderman (August 22, 2002) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
2009: Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals is the top vote-getter as the squads for the 80th All-Star Game, to be held July 14th in St. Louis, are announced. Among American League players is knuckleballer Tim Wakefield of Boston, who will be making his first All-Star appearance at age 42.
2011: Justin Verlander may be headed to the All-Star Game, but it is Dan Haren who pitches a two-hitter, outdueling the Tigers' ace in a 1 - 0 Angels victory.
Verlander and manager Jim Leyland are both ejected by umpire Joe West after Verlander exits the game in the 8th inning.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Doug Bochtler 1998.
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Tim Worrell 1998.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Joe Sargent 1921.
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Bernie DeViverios 1927.
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Pete Fox 1933-1940.
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